Chicago Commercial Photographer

While doing portraits is definitely the main foothold of my business, I do get to step outside my norm and do commercial work or product work on occasion and be a Chicago commercial photographer.  I was originally asked to come do a photograph for the cover of a magazine for this company who was being featured in the magazine.  I was given the specifics of what they wanted for that, and here is the image we did for it.

This company is a metal recycling company, which was so cool, as I have never at all experienced the process of melting metals.  It was such a cool experience to see what is involved in this process.  And obviously, it was extremely hot when near the melting.  This was their large machine for larger molds.

 

And here we got to see the use of a crucible (I may be totally wrong on that).  It took some work with my lights to really get the smoke right in the pictures.

 

This is definitely my favorite image from this day.  There is ZERO photoshopping going on. No added smoke or anything.

 

Believe it or not, what they were pouring into the mold was actual gold!  Here is the end result.

 

In another area of the factory, they do smaller metals, and this cup of pure gold was so neat.  When they told me how much this little cup was worth, I was tempted to snag a few pieces. LOL  Just kidding.  Well, sort of.

 

I did a lot of pictures of every aspect of their factory, and it was a great experience.  They used some images for the article in the magazine, but also for their website.  So if you have a unique business with an online present, think about the images you are using to advertise your work.  Make sure they are great and personal to your business alone.  They say “a picture is worth a thousand words” for a reason.  People are visual.

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